This is exactly everything my agent has told me about the consequences of any sort of threat against the appraiser. 

If we do the work our self we can only show material cost.4) They always threat to sue you but it is hard if you keep records of the damage.

That's because if for whatever reason things go south, depending on your jurisdiction, a foreclosure can eat up a lot of capital and time, there's also the threat of federal/state tax liens complicating matters. 

Maybe a threat of criminal prosecution would induce the owner to reimburse the association.Maybe you need no debit card and a bank account requiring two signatures on checks.

Unless it's a dirt cheap courthouse steps home that you got for virtually nothing, and thus you don't really care if you lose it, always get title insurance.I've actually received a court summons & lien threat over something a previous owner did that the title company didn't catch while I was in escrow to purchase the place (straight retail MLS property, wasn't a wonky deal at all), and had title insurance take care of it.

If you live in a cold area, make sure cold weather threats are covered.2.

We didn’t want the drug dealers to murder Jim in retaliation and the threats and anger at the building were becoming alarmingly extreme in such a short period of time.

Sometimes threat of filing suit puts them in line.

In my opinion that is an empty threat from your PM and just makes the whole operation look like a bunch of drama queens. 

Assume that the lien has no monetary penalties applied (but, of course, there's a threat of fines).Are there hand and fast rules?